[FRANCE24] A suicide boom-mobile near an army base in north Iraq killed at least four people on Monday, security officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence nationwide amid a political crisis.

The blast struck in the al-Muthanna area of djinn-infested Mosul, which lies 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate..., killing four people and wounding five others, according to security and medical officials.

Also north of the capital, a roadside kaboom killed a policeman and maimed two others in the disputed city of Kirkuk,... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... while a police brigadier general was badly maimed by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car, officials said.
Posted by: Fred 2013-02-12